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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.50
Rank	#142	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	66.18
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	31.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#340	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

yanza.com

Technical documentation

altibase.com/resources/manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Microsoft

Yanza

Initial release

1999

2012

2014

2015

Current release

7.1, July 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

since February 2018

commercial info

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

commercial info

free version available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

JavaScript

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration info

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Altibase is an enterprise grade open source DBMS . It allows for high performance...
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Competitive advantages

Since its inception, Altibase has been renowned for its in-memory capabilities. Altibase...
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Typical application scenarios

Altibase has been deployed for over 6000 mission-critical use cases that demand hundreds...
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Key customers

Since 1999, Altibase has served over 600 enterprise clients including 9 Fortune Global...
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Market metrics

Over 600 global enterprise clients including 8 Fortune Global 500 companies Over...
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Licensing and pricing models

No License Cost Altibase is an open source DBMS which includes its sharding Subscription...
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